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Connect and secure devices, send sensor data to the web, update firmware over the air, and scale your fleet with our instant IoT cloud. Select hardware and connectivity that meets your needs from your preferred vendor. Use the open source Golioth Device SDK to integrate with your firmware securely. Once connected you can instantly monitor, manage, and update your devices from the Golioth console. We’re a group of industry-leading hardware, firmware, and cloud engineers. We understand the struggle to connect “sand” to the internet, so we built a better way to do just that. We’re built for the embedded developer workflow. Use the tools you’re already familiar with to build robust and reliable devices, faster. Choose from hundreds of hardware options and a variety of connectivity types, protocols, and multiple embedded RTOS providers. Golioth provides a single control plane for all your devices, whether you’re exploring an idea, or improving an existing project.

Blynk is a low-code IoT software platform for connecting devices to the cloud, building mobile apps to remotely control and monitor them, and managing thousands of users and deployed products. It’s a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that helps businesses and individuals seamlessly progress from a prototype of a connected product to its commercial launch and further growth. Blynk provides a range of features facilitating the launch and maintenance of commercial projects, e.g. device provisioning, device management, data storage and visualization, alerts and notifications, user management with multi-level tree-like organization structures, OTA firmware updates. Blynk is hardware-agnostic which means customers can connect to the Internet any device from the broad list of supported hardware and use a suite of software products to monitor and control it.